Monday, February 06, 2017

Furry Pondering

MARLEY: After my picture on Mancat Monday, I (and TBT) am wondering iffen I might actually be a calico dude. I mean, the black smudge on my cheek isnt much, but there is also a slight patch unner my eye.

We looked it up, and we think I am. That would make me a bit unusual, but we dont know enough about that. I asked the vet last time I was there and he said he dint know about that kind of stuff.

Now, it doesnt really matter a whole lot. I am happy here anny way and TBT says Im special no matter. But does annyone know more about this stuff? We dont have cat clubs around here ta ask.

Its all just curiosity, but you know what curiosity is to us cats...

Truth to tell, there is Ayla the all papered Meezer, and Iza, the papered Meezer who found out she was a Tonkinese (which was SO cool), so Im wonderin about ME! I'd like ta be officially special in SOME way.

18 comments:

You are totally special Marley, calico or not!Äiti got hold of a wonderful book which I hope you might be able to get for TBT as it was ALL about tortie boys, called 'Cats Are Not Peas' which is a stoopy title but it's to do with some monk who grey peas and worked out things about boy peas and girl peas or something like that! Äiti says TBT must get that book as it really gives loads of info about chimeras and stuff.it also talks about the search for the possibility of a fertile tortie boy! Bit late for you, dude!

Male calicos are very rare but not impossible. Because of where Chimera has certain markings when she was a baby we kinda thought she was a boy, the markings made her look like she had boy parts if you know what we mean.

Female cats have two X chromosomes, while male cats have an X and a Y chromosome. For a cat to be a calico or tortoiseshell, the animal must have two X chromosomes, which means the kitty is going to be female the vast majority of the time. When the calico pattern exists in a male, it’s because the cat has three sex chromosomes: two X, one Y (male).

The XXY combination is a genetic rarity that occasionally shows up in cats (people, too). And if both X chromosomes carry the calico blueprint, you’re looking at one rare cat: a male calico.

Such XXY animals are called Klinefelter males, after the doctor who first described the condition, and they are usually sterile.

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